Author: Alexander Pope

Quotes

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

- Alexander Pope

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

- Alexander Pope

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

- Alexander Pope

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

- Alexander Pope

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

- Alexander Pope

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

- Alexander Pope

Never find fault with the absent.

Never find fault with the absent.

- Alexander Pope

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

- Alexander Pope

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

- Alexander Pope

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